Markus Podehl

Markus Helmut Podehl (born 1978 in Boppard am Rhein ) is a German architect and publicist . He teaches at the TU Darmstadt .

Life

Training and dissertation

Podehl studied architecture from 1997 to 2001 with Bernd Huckriede at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus (BTU Cottbus). From March 1999 to March 2000 he worked as an employee at the Chair for Housing and Social Buildings. He then completed an internship at the MVRDV Architecten architectural office in Rotterdam (NL) from May 2000 to February 2001 . He then studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) from 2001 to 2004 , interrupted by a guest study at EPF Lausanne in the academic year 2003/04 , where he graduated as an architect with the title “Dipl. Arch. ETH ”. He wrote his diploma thesis with Hans Kollhoff .

From 2004 to 2005 Podehl held a start-up scholarship from ETH Zurich for a doctorate. For his planned dissertation, he undertook a research and work stay in Kaliningrad from December 2004 to September 2006 and worked as an architect at NIKOR-PROEKT in Kaliningrad from November 2005 to May 2006 . From November 2004 to February 2010 he wrote his dissertation on the architectural and urban development of Königsberg / Kaliningrad at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the ETH Zurich under Andreas Tönnesmann with a doctorate in science (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich). His doctorate was funded with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.

practical activity

From September 2009 to May 2012 he worked as an architect for Max Dudler in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . Since May 2012 he has been working at the TU Darmstadt in the Department of Architecture / Design and Industrial Methods of Building Construction as a research assistant at the chair of Jörg Springer; the chair is currently (as of February 2016) represented by Armin Behles . Podehl has been working as a freelance architect in his own architecture office since August 2012.

reception

Podehl's work on the building history and architecture of Königsberg / Kaliningrad was received in science, research, cultural dialogue and in film.

Movie

Podehl worked as a consultant, interview partner and translator / interpreter on a documentary film about Kaliningrad, which the documentary filmmaker Hannes Gieseler, then a student at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences , made in 2006 with a grant from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation . Gieseler explained that he found his film topic when he got to know Podehl in Kaliningrad, who was working on his doctorate there: "We interviewed people together, for example architects or urban planners from back then." Gieseler's film, which deals with architecture and Urban structure of Kaliningrad , arose in its later form in collaboration with Podehl.

Conference participation

In 2013 Podehl gave a lecture on the architectural history of Königsberg at the 6th German-Russian Forum of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft in Duisburg ; which also contained a presentation of photos and plans from the post-war period. Podehl's lecture met with “great interest” among the participants. Podehl successfully managed to “promote the German-Russian dialogue” with his book.

In October 2014, Podehl and the historian Bert Hoppe (Berlin, author of the book Auf den Trümmern von Königsberg ) took part in a round table at the international conference on the spacetime of the imperial on the topic of “Recording space-time in scientific and less scientific monographs on Königsberg / Kaliningrad from a media perspective ”. The conference on East Prussia was organized by the Erfurt Space / Time Research of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erfurt and took place in Erfurt and Gotha .

Reviews

Michael Mackenzie of DePauw University wrote a scientific review in English on Podehl's dissertation in the scientific journal The Russian Review . Mackenzie refers to Podehl's approach of first of all providing the reader with "documentary material": detailed plans for buildings for urban development and planning, planning drafts that were partially worked out, supplemented by Podehl's own photographs of buildings that still exist. Podehl's study is also a detailed organizational history of the Kaliningrad officials who were commissioned by the Soviet authorities to rebuild the city. Functionaries and “faceless” bureaucrats would become individual personalities with their own stories and careers through Podehl's study. Podehl's study is of particular interest to scientists who are interested in the “architecture of modernity in the world of communism ”.

In the journal Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz published by the East German Cultural Council , a review of Podehl's Architektura Kaliningrada by Klaus Weigelt , one of the winners of the Königsberg Citizens' Medal , appeared in issue 1335 of August 25, 2013 under the title From “Collectivism” to Paroxysm: Königsberger Architektur . According to Weigelt, with his book Architektura Kaliningrada, Podehl presented “an architectural history that has never existed in this form before.” The reader receives “completely new insights” about the new planning of the center as the “ Acropolis of Modernity ” in the detailed chapter on this topic. Podehl has “prepared the abundance of material in a multifaceted way”.

Irina Belinzewa wrote in Academia 1 , 2013, on pages 129-131, a large review of Podehl's Architektura Kaliningrada in Russian. According to Belinzewa, the study of the city's architectural history will be made possible by new and little-known materials presented by Podehl. Belinzewa emphasizes that one of the advantages of Podehl's research is that Podehl examines the “ building history of Königsberg - Kaliningrad as a special example of the general European and Russian way of architectural development in the 20th century.” According to Belinzewa, M. Podehl contributed “a huge amount of work the collection of art-historical material. ”Furthermore, Belinzewa points out that“ the volume of the published book has so far lacked comparable studies by Russian scholars on the subject at hand ”[...] The book is interesting because it publishes new and little-known materials on post-war Kaliningrad construction and analyzed and unexpected interpretations of well-known architectural objects of the city are presented. Belinzova concluded that it can be assumed that the book, which is devoted to the architectural and planning activities in Kaliningrad in the second half of the 20th century, “makes it easier for readers to find their way around the history of this difficult place”. [...]

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  Königsberg, urban planning 1941, “The new city center”.

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  Reconstruction plan for the old town of Königsberg, draft by Nawalichin Maksimow in 1949.

Publications

• Markus Podehl: Architektura Kaliningrada. How Königsberg became Kaliningrad. Materials on the art, culture and history of East Central Europe, Volume 1. Edited by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association. Marburg 2012, 420 pages, 451 illustrations, an overview map. Herder Institute, Marburg 2012.

Web links

• Markus Podehl ; Vita (TU Darmstadt)
• Markus Podehl , website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Dr. sc. ETH Zurich Markus Podehl Vita Internet presence of TU Darmstadt ; DEPUTY PROFESSOR Prof. iV Armin Behles . Retrieved December 10, 2015
2. ^ ^{A b} Jörg Müller: Young filmmaker shoots in Kaliningrad . In Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of August 10, 2006. Retrieved on December 10, 2015
3. ↑ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ЦЕНТР СОВРЕМЕННОГО ИСКУССТВА КАЛИНИНГРАДСКИЙ ФИЛИАЛ on Archive.ncca-kaliningrad.ru
4. ↑ Hannes Gieseler ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita; Database of scholarship holders of the Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt. Retrieved December 10, 2015. 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} "The future can be built" at www.ostpreussen.de. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
6. ^ Review in The Russian Review . Volume 74, Issue 1, pp. 144–181, January 2015. The review is on pages 162/163.
7. ^ Review in The Russian Review . Volume 74, Issue 1, pp. 144-181: “His approach instead is to spread out before the reader a surfeit of documentary material: detailed plans for buildings, developments, and urban centers, some carried out, others left in the planning stages ; models; diagrams, elevations; floor plans; and the author's own photographs of extant buildings ». (Michael Mackenzie - DePauw University)
8. ^ Review in The Russian Review . Volume 74, Issue 1, pp. 144-181: “The book is also a detailed organizational history of the official bodies charged by the Soviet authorities with rebuilding the city. This thorough history is based primarily on the State Archives of Kaliningrad Oblast, as well as documents such as criticism from guest books at public exhibitions of architectural plans and models, critical essays published in the local edition of Pravda, and interviews with the few actors still living. In the course of this study, functionaries and “faceless” bureaucrats become individuals with personal narratives and careers, as well as their own aesthetic predilections. This study will be particularly interesting to scholars with an interest in the fortunes of architectural modernism in the Communist world. » (Michael Mackenzie - DePauw University)
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} From “collectivism” to paroxysm: Königsberger Architektur In: Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz ; Edition 1335 of August 25, 2013. Accessed December 10, 2015.
10. ↑ Excerpts here in German translation of the review.